Vietnam War DBQ
Vietnam war was the longest war in American History which fought between 1964 to 1975 and the most unpopular war for the American of the 20th century. This is the only one war that United States lost the war but no one knows the truth because the US government had not told about this war yet. The resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and in an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths. It seemed like the American won the war but actually they were not. The experience for the American soldier in Vietnam was long and painful one for the nation. During the war, the Vietnam is spilt in the two groups; the South which was Capitalism and the North which was Communism. To support the South Vietnam’s government, the American sent the soldiers
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There was a song by Joe McDonald called; Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag (Next Stop Vietnam). “And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for Don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates Ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee we're all gonna die!” (Doc F) According to this document, the American soldiers in the Vietnam didn’t even know where they were there and what they were fighting for. They were just drafted in the war because they had no choice and mostly they were poor and uneducated therefore the US government took them and sent to the Vietnam and fought for the war. Moreover, the people were protesting in the United States because they didn’t want to involve in the war. People think that the war was not their war therefore they dodged the draft and didn’t go to the war. “I was in Vietnam when I first heard about the thousands of people protesting the war in the streets of America. I didn’t want to believe it at first-people protesting against us when we were putting our lives on the line for our country. The men in my outfit used to talk about it a lot. How could they do this to us? Many of us would not be coming back and many others would be wounded or maimed. We swore they would pay, the hippies and draft card burners. They would pay if we ever ran into them.” (Doc C). In this document, they mean they didn’t belong with the war and it was the better way not to go to the war would be better than going to the
There was a song by Joe McDonald called; Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag (Next Stop Vietnam). “And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for Don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates Ain't no time to wonder why, whoopee we're all gonna die!” (Doc F) According to this document, the American soldiers in the Vietnam didn’t even know where they were there and what they were fighting for. They were just drafted in the war because they had no choice and mostly they were poor and uneducated therefore the US government took them and sent to the Vietnam and fought for the war. Moreover, the people were protesting in the United States because they didn’t want to involve in the war. People think that the war was not their war therefore they dodged the draft and didn’t go to the war. “I was in Vietnam when I first heard about the thousands of people protesting the war in the streets of America. I didn’t want to believe it at first-people protesting against us when we were putting our lives on the line for our country. The men in my outfit used to talk about it a lot. How could they do this to us? Many of us would not be coming back and many others would be wounded or maimed. We swore they would pay, the hippies and draft card burners. They would pay if we ever ran into them.” (Doc C). In this document, they mean they didn’t belong with the war and it was the better way not to go to the war would be better than going to the